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Canadian Drama 'Saving Hope' Secures Foreign Sales Post-NBC

After NBC took the Canadian medical drama Saving Hope off its schedule, Entertainment One has gone abroad for more broadcast partners to back a second season.

Ahead of Mipcom, additional deals have been signed with DirecTV in Latin America, Globosat in Brazil, Zon in Portugal, D-Smart in Turkey, La7 in Italy, EUFORIA TV in Romania, Domashny in Russia and Sony SET Channel in Africa.

The Erica Durance and Michaels Shanks-starring hour-long drama has already been given a second-season order by CTV, even as Saving Hope struggled to make a splash in the ratings for NBC.

The first season became Canada’s top-rated new summer series with an average audience of 1.7 million viewers.

The on-ongoing life of the Canadian drama is typical of many in recent years that go onto successive seasons, just not on U.S. network TV, as American broadcasters initially pay a modest license fee that Canadian producers can offset with additional foreign sales.

Saving Hope is produced by Ilana C Frank Films, with Entertainment One.

The series is executive produced by Ilana Frank, David Wellington, John Morayniss, Lesley Harrison and showrunners Morwyn Brebner and Aaron Martin.